Saturday, February 11, 2012

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: January 29

Epistle

2 Timothy 3.1-9

Read in context

1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.Log in to add notes

2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,Log in to add notes

3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,Log in to add notes

4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;Log in to add notes

5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.Log in to add notes

6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,Log in to add notes

7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.Log in to add notes

8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.Log in to add notes

9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 20.46-21.4

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20:46Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;Log in to add notes

20:47Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.Log in to add notes

21:1And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.Log in to add notes

21:2And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.Log in to add notes

21:3And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:Log in to add notes

21:4For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.Log in to add notes